What can you use the application for?
Snooth is an innovative social network that aims at simplifying the online wine shopping experience of the people. It has possibly the most comprehensive wine database globally and provides personalized wine recommendations and wine information search tool to casual and aspiring wine drinkers. It helps wine lovers find the best of wines around the world through its community and helps them access top wine merchants. Snooth provides individual ratings to each of the wines available throughout the website on the basis of certain standards like balance, complexity, depth and length. Users of Snooth make their profile pages and rate different wines (at least five) they have tasted. Snooth provides personalized recommendations based on the specific taste mentioned by the user. The site compares the taste profile of the user with the thousands of others to provide personally unique suggestions. Snooth doesn’t directly sell wines but helps the user to find favorite wine through its site and purchase it through their merchant partners. The search process at Snooth is smooth; just enter a wine name, the winery name or a grape type and the advanced search engine would help in refining the search process. By registering with the site a user can have the lifetime opportunity to get in touch with the thousands of wine lovers from around the globe. Keeping a track record of friend’s activities at Snooth like what wines they are drinking; giving and receiving recommendations from them is an effortless activity. Managing the list of favorite wines and taste notes is easy and a user does not need to worry about loosing his personal record list. A user can also search for his favorite wines with the list provided by the site of famous wineries around the world selling vintage and excellent categories of wines. A user can refine his search to find the closest of wine merchants in his region.
What is the history and popularity of the application?
Snooth.com was founded in November 2006 by an Oxford University and Columbia Business School graduate, Phillips James. It was launched in June 2007. The social shopping website of wine is having millions of reviews and contains ratings on extensive range of wines. The company has its registered office in New York, USA. The website currently boasts of a large dedicated user base and is counted amongst the top sites in its class.
What are the differences to other applications?
Snooth is continuously expanding its wine database with mammoth number of wine reviews. It provides access to world’s best wine sellers and that is what differentiates it from other applications. There is as such no other potential difference between Snooth and other similar websites available on the Internet apart from the fact that Snooth covers a lot more than other related sites.
How does the application look and feel to use?
The site comes across as a clean and well maintained application. The logo of the site is just what a wine lover loves to see. It consists of two glasses toasting each other. The use of green color is fantastic and gives the site a bold look. The animated range of wine bottles with a tag line provides a flow to the site. The navigation of the site is smooth and just a click takes a second or two to navigate to other pages of the site.
How does the registration process work?
The registration process of Snooth is simple and short. For availing the facilities of Snooth, it is mandatory to become the member of the site. A user just has to provide a screen name, email address and password for becoming an active member of the site. It does not take much to get someone registered with the site. No credit card details are needed for registering with the site. No confirmation mail is sent to the user’s email id.
What does it cost to use the application?
Becoming a member of Snooth and availing its services are absolutely free. There is no as such advertisement involved in the site. The site doesn’t hold any responsibility in case of any complaints regarding the wines as it only works as a mediator between the users and wine merchants. The site is presently funded by Angel Investors.
Who would you recommend the application to?
The site is a perfect online platform for all wine lovers who need a bit of socialization effect in it. It can be recommended to any person who is interested in finding the best wines according to his taste and likes to receive recommendation from friends and other online members.
